The shortwave schedule of Vatican Radio (Radio Vaticana) on the timelines of your cities: every broadcast with its language, frequencies, target area and transmitter site, shown in your own time zone instead of UTC.
Vatican Radio still uses shortwave to reach Catholic communities far from Rome, mostly in Africa, Eastern Europe and Asia. Portuguese and Mandarin programs run most often, followed by Ukrainian, Russian, Vietnamese and French; smaller services cover Swahili, Somali, Tigrinya, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Spanish. Some broadcasts are prayers rather than programs: the Rosary for Africa and the Middle East, and the Oriental liturgy for Eastern Europe and the Caucasus. Several air only on Saturdays or Sundays.
The broadcasts go out from the transmitter centre at Santa Maria di Galeria, north of Rome, with some programs for Africa relayed from Madagascar. Like all international broadcasters, Vatican Radio publishes its schedule in UTC and changes frequencies twice a year, at the end of March and the end of October. This calendar follows the current season of the EiBi shortwave schedule and places every broadcast at its local time in each of your cities, including the weekly ones.
Select a broadcast to see its frequencies in kHz, the target area, the transmitter and the days it airs, with a link to listen on an online SDR receiver.
Portuguese for Africa and South America, Mandarin for China and Vietnamese for South East Asia, Ukrainian and Russian for Eastern Europe and Siberia, French, Swahili, Somali and Tigrinya for Africa, Hindi, Tamil and Malayalam for India, Spanish for the Caribbean, plus Latin, Italian and Romanian programs, the Rosary and the Oriental liturgy.
There is no single frequency: each broadcast uses its own frequencies for its target area, mostly between 9 and 18 MHz, and they change at the end of March and the end of October. Select a broadcast on the timeline to see its frequencies in kHz.
At Santa Maria di Galeria, north of Rome. Some programs for Africa are also relayed from Talata Volonondry in Madagascar.
Each broadcast has a Listen live link that opens the University of Twente WebSDR, a receiver in the Netherlands, tuned to the broadcast frequency. Broadcasts aimed at Europe come in best there.
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